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Ludhiana, Yet another person is on fast for the release of Sikh prisoners under detention for the cases relating to the militancy.
On fast since January 16 last, Surat Singh, who is 83 years of age and belongs to Hasanpur village of Ludhiana district, was recently arrested by the police and shifted to civil hospital.
In a letter written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday, he stated, “To fulfil the unfinished work of Bhai Gurbaksh Singh seeking the release of political prisoners, I am committed to follow in totality the true Sikh tradition of making a commitment and sticking to it, very ably demonstrated by Bhai Darshan Singh Pheruman in the early sixties of the last century. I have decided to redo “the act of martyrdom”, for if I do not do so, the faith of the Sikhs in God and history will be shaken, for if I do not do so, the Indian state will never take the Sikhs seriously and I will never be able to give a satisfactory reply to my conscience”.
He said the basic issue he had took up was just that of the release of a few Sikh prisoners but the larger the question about the inalienable right of a person to live life without fetters. The question is about regaining of liberty after you have completed the full term of one’s sentence in prison. The question is about justice, equality and fair play. The question is about parity between the rich and famous and the poor and the underdogs”.
he has demanded that all such prisoners should be treatred as political oprisoners. All the Sikh prisoners who had completed their full jail terms and were legitimately due for release should be freed.
